Hescominsoon
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actually the communication between the authorization card and the box and the tech center is drm'ed..and that could stop it right there as i doubt they are using ms's drm..
A new Windows brought forward early?
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Odale
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Great wall of Penguins incomming!!
There.
Someone had to post it.
Why would they push a Vista successor out so fast? Vista is still relatively new. Does it stink that much?
There.
Someone had to post it.
Why would they push a Vista successor out so fast? Vista is still relatively new. Does it stink that much?
vibrokatana
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It doesn't stink, just nothing works. It is a feature.
Odale
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Haha! Nice way to put that.
Hescominsoon
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ROFL!!!!
Talon
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I've seen a few 2k8 RC2 at work. Its rumored 2k8 will be released on the market in late February, at least thats what I heard at the last meeting. There are still quite a few bugs that are being worked on while I've been working there. I worked on a few open bugs on 2k8 myself, getting the necessary equipment hooked up so the debug team could fix the issues.
vibrokatana
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Our company is going to start migrating some of our services to Linux. The Microsoft tax is really starting to be felt, and free sounds good 
I am currently migrating our geospatial data to MySQL from MsSQL and that server will go Linux when/if we build another box. The Mapguide server will likely go linux once it matures a bit more and we drop 6.5 which is windows only and requires IE to work but that will likely not be for a while.
I am currently migrating our geospatial data to MySQL from MsSQL and that server will go Linux when/if we build another box. The Mapguide server will likely go linux once it matures a bit more and we drop 6.5 which is windows only and requires IE to work but that will likely not be for a while.
Hescominsoon
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you could always vmware that mahcine and a couple of others and put them all onto one beefy box with a linux underpinning and then virtualize the other servers there..
Hescominsoon
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is this the mapguide you are talking about?
http://mapguide.osgeo.org/
http://mapguide.osgeo.org/
vibrokatana
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yuppers. The linux install is rather interesting as it really likes to install its own apache and php (sorta like oracle which does apache and tomcat but a bit nicer on the system). Mono has a FCGI executable coming up in the next major release that is starting to look tempting so I could skip the "webserver extensions" in lieu of using C# to write the site, but I could just point the php files in a sub/domain to the mapguide php fcgi executable (I <3 lighttpd).
Now I just need to figure out where I can get an easy chroot fc7 jail to compile some packages...grr
Mapguide is pretty fun to work with (in the API) and the open source is LGPL so you can write commercial apps on top of it.
vibrokatana
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you could always vmware that mahcine and a couple of others and put them all onto one beefy box with a linux underpinning and then virtualize the other servers there..
I don't think any of the servers have the bit needed for native xen and vmware costs money on the server side (and doesn't really offer any benefits as the servers are @ capacity).
virtualization is only really useful if you have several servers that are under utilized and you can pool them together. Money is a major factor also, and building big bad servers to run vmware isn't a great idea IMO.
vibrokatana
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o0, you can build chroots with mock. Sweet.
Hescominsoon
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wrong..vmware server is free. vmware workstaiton is not free.
vibrokatana
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either way it is impractical as most of the servers are pretty much at capacity and disk space is a premium atm. The retooling would be a pain atm.
nattyg
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nattyg
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actually the communication between the authorization card and the box and the tech center is drm'ed..and that could stop it right there as i doubt they are using ms's drm..
...which has absolutely nothing to do with getting the signal once decrypted by the tuner into the PC and as such, doesn't require a change to Vista's DRM. The changes proposed are not *required*, but are far more flexible in that they remove the current restrictions tying the recordings to a single device.
hardware + vmc updates to work with in-band EPG + driver = dtv solution
hardware + vmc updates to work with in-band EPG + driver + nice (understatement) to have mods to DRM = dtv solution + icanfinallywatchcontentanywheresoyay
vibrokatana
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If your going to do virtualization the best option is a fedora base and xen. Fedora has some gui tools that make setting up a VM a snap and xen has a lower overhead then running with vmware.
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Either way the built in DRM will limit usage and will prevent drivers from being written for alternative OSes.
Hescominsoon
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vibrokatana
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More fun with lighttpd. Script pooling, yay. Although IIS makes it a bit easier to do since it has a GUI (most people don't even know what they are but whatever).
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Hescominsoon
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the issue with xen is that the os requires modification to run under xen and xen does not support windows well. Vmware is free, supports jsut about any linux and most windows and is free to run on linux or windows as the host os.